Industrial growth, economic integration and structural change

What is it about?

The article evaluates the pre-accession experience of newEuropean Union member-states, coming from the former Eastern bloc, estimating an empirical model used to account for regional–industrial employment growth in the early transition period, 1991–2000. The results obtained indicate the adverse impact of the economic integration dynamics and detect the interplay among structural characteristics and geographical coordinates that determines the relative winners. The findings of the article have important implications for both theory and policy

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Why is it important?

The article evaluates the pre-accession experience of newEuropean Union member-states, coming from the former Eastern bloc.